Center for Study of Adult Literacy

The
goal of this project is to develop and evaluate a multiple component
intervention framework to address and conduct research on struggling adult
readers and their literacy learning needs. The participants in our work will be
adults who read between the 3rd and 8th grade equivalency levels. We will use a
comprehensive approach to assessment that weds cognitive assessment with
evaluation of motivational needs and attributions about literacy learning and
develop an intervention with different modules to allow tailoring to differing
instructional needs in decoding and word identification, reading fluency,
vocabulary, text analysis and reading comprehension, and adopt a web-based
instructional adjunct to facilitate increased engagement by adult learners and greater
reading experience inside and outside the classroom.